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Nifty Ways to Leave Your Law Firm

Posted on July 08, 2008
By the time we get out of law school, we've learned a thing or two about how to find a job, but virtually nothing about how to leave one, observes Carolyn Elefant, my colleague here at Legal Blog Watch, in...

Student Sues to Wear Lawyer's T-shirt

Posted on July 08, 2008
Admittedly, that headline is misleading, given that the lawyer in question is not just any lawyer but former presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards and that the principle at issue has nothing to do with the student's love of the legal...

Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow

Posted on July 08, 2008
Yesterday, when David Lat at Above the Law announced his discovery of the recently launched blog HotAttorney, his immediate reaction was regret that he had not come up with the idea first. This, after all, is the man who brought...

A How-To Guide on Flat-Fee Billing

Posted on July 07, 2008
For many lawyers, flat-fee billing offers an attractive alternative to the tyranny of the billable hour. Among the advantages, flat-fee billing rewards rather than penalizes lawyers for efficiency, plus it liberates lawyers from the tedious practice of tracking time...

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U.K. Lawyers Don't Want Their Children To Follow in Their Footsteps

Posted on July 07, 2008
Moms and dads, don't let your children grow up to be lawyers. That's the refrain lawyers in the United Kingdom are singing, according to a survey commissioned by recruitment agency Hudson, and reported in the Telegraph. The study polled 1,000...

Blawg Review # 167

Posted on July 07, 2008
A patriotic edition of Blawg Review # 167 is up and running at Jonathan Frieden's e-Commerce Law Blog, with a post dedicated to each of the fifty states in the Union, in the order that the state ratified the Constitution...

Can Outsourcing to India Work Without Enough Local Talent?

Posted on July 07, 2008
Back in April, I noted that the practice of outsourcing legal work to India continues, notwithstanding concerns about ethics, attorney-client privilege and quality control. But can legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies retain enough lawyers to handle or supervise outsourced legal...

Happy 4th of July

Posted on July 03, 2008
For those of you who haven't yet cleared out early for this three day weekend, here's to a Happy 4th of July from all of us here at Legal Blog Watch. And if you have a moment free from the...

Carbox -- The Next New Revenue Frontier For Lawyers

Posted on July 03, 2008
Most likely, you've heard of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires companies to disclose to investors any business risks facing the company. Now there's a new hybrid -- Carbox -- which refers to a company's obligation under SOX to disclose a new...

Will New Policies Guard Against False Confessions, Or Do Defendants Still Need Great Lawyers?

Posted on July 03, 2008
In the wake of the New York Appellate decision vacating Marty Tankleff's conviction for murdering his parents -- which was based largely on a coerced confession that he tried to withdraw -- a New York task force is taking steps...

Martindale Links In to LinkedIn

Posted on July 03, 2008
Well look who's linking to LinkedIn -- none other than the great grandaddy of lawyer directories, Martindale-Hubbell. Kevin O'Keefe of Lexblog scooped the story this past Tuesday, reporting that LinkedIn is now powering a social networking function at Martindale...

Judge to Jurors: Don't Mess With Me!

Posted on July 02, 2008
We wrote earlier this week about the juror who wrote to a judge expressing concern that a potential criminal sentence would undermine the jury's acquittal. ("Juror to Judge: What Was the Point?") At her blog Deliberations, Anne Reed picked up...

Survey Says: Paralegal Pay Remains Solid

Posted on July 02, 2008
Despite daily servings in the news of economic doom and gloom, there is good news for paralegals, writes Chere Estrin at The Estrin Report. The reason for her optimism is a just-released survey of paralegal compensation showing solid increases in...

Negotiation Skills 101: The Condom

Posted on July 02, 2008
Effective negotiation skills can be a prophylactic against unwanted outcomes. But what of when the subject of negotiation is a prophylactic? I pass the microphone to lawyer and mediator Diane Levin at MediationChannel.com: Most of us still understand negotiation as...

Student Loses Suit Against Law School

Posted on July 02, 2008
Joseph Rodi had his heart set on taking the New Jersey bar exam. Problem was, he graduated in 2000 from an unaccredited Massachusetts law school, Southern New England School of Law. So, like the aspiring lawyer he was, he sued...

Blogger Picks Up on Supreme Blunder

Posted on July 02, 2008
Legal bloggers make no bones about telling the Supreme Court it got an opinion wrong. But one astute blogger is pointing out that in one decision last week, the court got its facts wrong. In deciding Kennedy v. Louisiana, holding...

Government Bans Computers... for Lawmakers

Posted on July 01, 2008
This story isn't directly related to the law, but it's so funny, I couldn't resist a post. Seems that the Parliament in Bhutan has banned its members from bringing laptops to work -- to stop them from playing computer games!...

A Roundup of Updates

Posted on July 01, 2008
Here's an update roundup on some of the stories that we've covered recently: New Missouri Legislation Prohibits Internet Harassment -- Back in May, I posted about the criminal indictment of Lori Drew, the Missouri mom who impersonated a 13-year-old boy...

New IPO Lows

Posted on July 01, 2008
Remember the days of the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, when it seemed that any company with a plain-language domain name or a cute mascot -- like pets.com or boo.com -- could launch an initial public offering? That era...

Blawg Review #166

Posted on July 01, 2008
This week brings a double dose of Blawg Review. Leading off is Blawg Review #166, hosted by GeekLawyer, which celebrates the 4th of July. It features heroes of the "American" blogosphere like Victoria Pynchon and What About Clients? blogger Dan...

In China, Lawsuits Rising From the Ruins of the Earthquake

Posted on July 01, 2008
In the wake of the massive 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake, Chinese lawyers are awakening citizens to the availability of their legal rights. According to the WSJ Law Blog, lawyers are using television and the Web to teach Chinese people, including...

Juror to Judge: What Was the Point?

Posted on June 30, 2008
At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman points to yesterday's examination by The Washington Times of the case of Antwuan Ball, who faces 40 years in prison over a $600 drug deal. Federal prosecutors charged the D.C. man with a...

Divorce May Undo Lawyer's Career Change

Posted on June 30, 2008
It is the dream of so many Biglaw lawyers: To simplify, to downsize, to forgo big bucks in favor of personal fulfillment. And it was the dream the former Washington, D.C., Biglaw partner had pursued -- at least until his...

Florida Judge Makes History

Posted on June 30, 2008
On Friday, Peggy A. Quince was sworn in as chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, becoming the first black woman to lead that state's court system -- or any branch of government in Florida. This is not her first...

Rehashing Kerry's Choice of Law School

Posted on June 30, 2008
As someone who graduated from Boston College Law School, I took it as a personal insult in 2004 when blogger and law professor Ann Althouse asked, "If John Kerry is so smart, then why did he go to BC Law?"...

LTWC 2008: Nine Innings of E-Discovery

Posted on June 27, 2008
LegalTech isn't just about CLE sessions on outsourcing and information management -- a true power-attendee manages to squeeze in a bit of beer and baseball too. E-discovery 2.0 blogger Kurt Leafstrand pulled off a rare feat Wednesday night by making....

LTWC 2008: Judge Laporte's Helpful Formulas

Posted on June 27, 2008
Law.com technology editor Sean Doherty reports from Friday morning's keynote address by Judge Elizabeth Laporte, down in LA for the morning before flying back up to her seat in the Northern District of California. Working in a region that encompasses...

LTWC2008: Blawgers Still Like Paper Books

Posted on June 27, 2008
At least two legal bloggers are promoting old-fashioned ink-and-paper books at LegalTech. J.Craig Williams, of May It Please the Court and Lawyer 2 Lawyer fame, offered autographed copies of his new tome "How to Get Sued" during Thursday's blogger breakfast...

LTWC 2008: Second-Day Thoughts on the Keynote

Posted on June 27, 2008
It's day two of LegalTech West Coast and the bloggers have had a little time to contemplate Thursday's sessions away from the show floor. Things are different out here in LA. Walking from my hotel down to the convention center...

LTWC 2008: New Ruling on an Old Technology

Posted on June 26, 2008
We briefly interrupt our special LegalTech West Coast coverage to note the news from the East Coast on the Supreme Court's long-awaited decision on the right to bear, well, a deadly piece of technology. Here's a quick link-wrap on the...

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